It’s no consolation, of course, that some of the most scandalous injustices of modern times have generated some of the most searing moments of drama-documentary television.
It was a Thursday night in December 1996 when ITV broadcast Jimmy McGovern’s Hillsborough - conveying, amongst so much else, the scene in a Sheffield street, where Trevor and Jenni Hicks wave off their daughters, Sarah and Vicki, to the Leppings Lane stand, never to see them again. Heartbreaking. Unforgettable.
It was the journalism which gave that film its greatest significance. McGovern had asked a brilliant World in Action investigative journalist, Katy Jones, to work with him.